ATLANTA — People are staying off the roads in Georgia, and while conditions are not ideal, few traffic delays have been reported.

"Travel conditions are not great but there are no problems because people are avoiding them," said Drew Belk, a media liaison at the operations center for the Georgia Transportation Management Center in Atlanta.

Interstate 75, the scene of hours-long delays on Thursday and Friday, was completely clear from Atlanta to the Florida state line.

Belk said most of the problems early Monday are in southwest Georgia, where winds from Hurricane Irma had picked up to 20-30 mph. A few stoplights are out of service and road flooding — "things you would normally see in a bad storm — have been reported, Belk said.

The eye of the hurricane was expected to pass over Valdosta, Georgia, about 10 miles north of the Florida state line, at about 2 p.m. Tropical-force winds of up to 70 mph are expected there this afternoon.

"There are like a lot of downed trees and a few downed power lines on state roads," Belk said. "Most people are not on the roads."

Belk said that evacuees from Florida should probably stay put in Georgia until the storm passes.

"Really it would be best if they returned on Wednesday, but it may be possible tomorrow," Belk said.

Anna B. Mitchell covers business across the Upstate. Follow her on Twitter @AnnaBard2U or on Facebook.